How it got there I do not to this moment know, but I presume that there was some cleft or hole in the opposing cliff, through which it pierced when the setting orb was in a direct line therewith.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

,” said I, “you have played me a pretty trick; was it premeditated?
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Formerly the priest, the mayor, and the aldermen used to walk in procession to the bonfire, and even deigned to light it; after which the assembly marched thrice round the burning pile.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He, then, who prefers what is right to what is wrong, and what is well-ordered to what is perverted, sees that the peace of unjust men is not worthy to be called peace in comparison with the peace of the just.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The tangled thickets thou shall tread Where thorns with iron points are spread.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The motive in general stands before the will in protean forms.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

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— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Such are treason, which is punishable by hanging; by drowning in sea.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

The only other Arabic title which is perhaps worth noticing here 23 is that of “Priest” (Imām), which we find somewhat curiously used in an invocation addressed to the sea-spirit.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

We need not take the view that this was a shady transaction; yet if Wilkinson had inserted $250 as the consideration to be paid for the land, no more than this could have been claimed by the Sioux, and as this was in part Pike's personal property, some land would have been his own unless he had chosen to make it over to the United States on being reimbursed in a like amount—that is, if such a treaty was worth any more than the paper on which it was written.
— from The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. by Zebulon Montgomery Pike

After I read the constitutional objections of Mr. Monroe my opinion was changed, and I have ever since been endeavoring, upon all proper occasions, to atone for my vote, by advocating a cession of the road to the respective States through which it passes, that they may erect toll-gates upon it and keep it in repair.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

They had a delightful endless appetite for passages in my own history, to which I had again and again treated them; they were in possession of everything that had ever happened to me, had had, with every circumstance the story of my smallest adventures and of those of my brothers and sisters and of the cat and the dog at home, as well as many particulars of the eccentric nature of my father, of the furniture and arrangement of our house, and of the conversation of the old women of our village.
— from The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End by Henry James

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— from Settlers and Scouts: A Tale of the African Highlands by Herbert Strang

On the way, I passed a tavern and opened a door: a crowd of young men faced me: I asked for work and was given a scul­lery job, supper and a mat by the stove: I’ll never forget the warmth of that mat by that stove: I wanted nothing more: cherry voices and warmth: it all comes back!
— from Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

The world is pretty apt to be right.
— from The End of a Coil by Susan Warner

“I’ve seen the word in print, and I know it refers to some part of the grounds here, but I don’t exactly understand it.”
— from Dave Dashaway the Young Aviator; Or, In the Clouds for Fame and Fortune by Roy Rockwood

It is an atmospheric exhibition due to the refraction and dispersion of the moon’s light through very minute ice crystals floating at great elevations above the earth, and it is explained by the science of meteorology, to which it properly belongs; for it is not of cosmical origin, and in no way pertains to astronomy, as most persons suppose, except as it depends on the moon, whose light passing through the atmosphere, produces the luminous halo, which as will be seen, is simply an optical illusion, originating, not in the vicinity of the moon—two hundred and forty thousand miles away—but just above the earth’s surface, and within the aqueous envelope that surrounds it on all sides....
— from Astronomical Curiosities: Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard (John Ellard) Gore

It is to call him to submission, or to withdraw its protection from him.
— from Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government by F. J. C. (Fossey John Cobb) Hearnshaw